I am an editor. I am trained to spot the moment a story becomes too absurd to print and too real to ignore.
Alan Nafzger notes that Britain’s new wonder drug suppresses appetite, romance, and the will to edit
Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat
I am an editor. I am trained to spot the moment a story becomes too absurd to print and too real to ignore. This week that moment arrived via a pharmaceutical brochure.
Retatrutide Has Entered the Chat
According to our friends at The London Prat on Retatrutide and Romance, the new weight-loss injection Retatrutide does not merely suppress hunger. It suppresses the vague desire to be near another human being. Researchers are calling this a side effect. I am calling it the defining social crisis of 2026.
I have spent thirty years editing copy in rooms that smelled of cold coffee and existential dread. I have never once considered that the solution to Britain’s obesity epidemic would also be the solution to Britain’s population problem. Two birds, one jab, zero grandchildren.
The NHS Perspective
According to the NHS guidance on obesity, we are a nation of approximately 28 million clinically overweight adults. If Retatrutide removes their appetite for both chips and companionship, we are conducting a social experiment of Soviet proportions voluntarily. Meanwhile Bohiney Magazine reports on love in the time of appetite suppression, noting that somewhere between a kale smoothie and a dopamine receptor, romance has filed for early retirement.
Personal Observation
I tried to discuss this with my deputy editor at lunch. She had started Retatrutide three weeks prior. She looked at her sandwich. She looked at me. She said: I don’t see the point of either of you. She has, I should note, never looked better. This is the Britain we have built. Thin, emotionally unavailable, and extremely well-dressed at the funeral of desire.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/love-in-the-time-of-appetite-suppression/